Jarhead_h:Why does this get the "sick" tag? Horse meat is a viable form of animal protein that can feed people for a profit, and America happens to have an abundance of them.

They are ripping people off and lying to them. horse meat is cheaper than cow meat. You pay for cow meat and they substitute it with the cheaper horse meat, you are OK with that? If so why don't you give me your account info and I'll withdraw everything and send you a couple thousand pennies. I mean it's the same thing right?

FullMetalPanda:Jarhead_h: Why does this get the "sick" tag? Horse meat is a viable form of animal protein that can feed people for a profit, and America happens to have an abundance of them.

They are ripping people off and lying to them. horse meat is cheaper than cow meat. You pay for cow meat and they substitute it with the cheaper horse meat, you are OK with that? If so why don't you give me your account info and I'll withdraw everything and send you a couple thousand pennies. I mean it's the same thing right?

FullMetalPanda:Jarhead_h: Why does this get the "sick" tag? Horse meat is a viable form of animal protein that can feed people for a profit, and America happens to have an abundance of them.

They are ripping people off and lying to them. horse meat is cheaper than cow meat. You pay for cow meat and they substitute it with the cheaper horse meat, you are OK with that? If so why don't you give me your account info and I'll withdraw everything and send you a couple thousand pennies. I mean it's the same thing right?

So far, I've not seen an example of that in the States. I'm with a few others in this thread - as long as you label it appropriately, let the consumers decide. If they don't want horsemeat, then the market will dry up here.

So have they started testing everything in the US for horsey flavours yet? Given that a lot is produced in Mexico I find it unlikely that our friends across the pond aren't enjoying a few equine edibles as well.

I am so glad I am not the only one. I wonder, do you cook it like beef, or do you have to hit a chicken temperature?

It cooks exactly like beef. You can cook to pink, rare not recommended. It's flavor profile is sweeter than beef slightly close to venison though not as gamey unless its an pretty old horse. Ground is recommended to well done.

Makes excellent tacos

....I lived in a communal home with migrant and day laborers for a several months. You eat anything that moves when you're at that level of society.

If there is one thing I've learn from watching Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain is that large parts of the world fights daily to get adequate amounts of protein in their diet. And for wussy 1st worlders to say "Ew, that animal is adorable or that part of the animal is gross" is clueless and denigrating.

I've had goat, sheep, donkey, horse, monkey, hippo, crocodile, dog, cat, hedgehog, bushrat, muskrat, and a whole slew of antelope-looking critters that I'm not enough of a zoologist to identify. In general, most meat doesn't taste like chicken, it tastes like goat. Or like what it eats.

So...

Dog tastes like tough goat, but is tougher.Cat tastes like goat, with a weird stringy flavor (but that could be because African cats eat weird things).Donkey tastes like goat, but is blander and very very tough (donkeys in developing countries lead hard lives)Horse tastes like a cross between goat and beef, and is also quite bland.etc, etc